Healthcare Magazine

This Healthcare Magazine is the source for a plethora of unique Healthcare articles. Several notable figures in the medical industry, from top med schools and hospitals are featured in the Medical Sciences section, with their expert knowledge of the field.

Counting on betterment

India requires a better emergency medical service to meet the growing number of emergencies What exists currently in the form of fragmented services across the country falls way short of meeting the requirement..

Sustaining transformation

Lean approaches have been widely adopted by hospitals but application in the primary care setting has received less attention Primary care can use a Lean approach to structure and sustain quality improvement work but as with all quality improvement a..

Rise of a new era

Ensuring the delivery of healthcare as safely as possible has become top priority for the NHS The commissioners have an important role to play in planning and monitoring services on the basis of quality and outcomes to restore primum non nocere first..

Current indications

Contrast agents have been shown to be useful to improve the image quality in echocardiography The development of new ultrasound contrast agents and imaging techniques has enabled the bedside assessment of myocardial function and perfusion..

In the age of technology Monitoring with implantable devices

Most nations except the US have natural medicine traditions known and widely practised by the populace With the increasing availability of Western technocentred medicine theres a seduction in favour of modern medicine over traditional treatments Heal..

Innovations and new developments

Operation through a smaller incision makes valve surgery easier on the patient Because of improved durability more tissue valves are implanted compared to mechanical valves The latest development is percutaneous replacement of aortic valves and repai..

How Asia can disrupt the global healthcare

Asian innovators have the opportunity to design systems and services that are profitable and sustainable yet affordable and accessible to everyone As they do so they can make major contributions to solve the global healthcare crisis by collaborating ..

Emerging Cardiac Devices and Technologies

Recent studies have confirmed that noninvasive coronary imaging using Computed Tomographic Coronary Angiography CTCA is exceptionally accurate and at the same time compared with its invasive counterpart is faster cheaper and safer..

Can they replace PET?

Functional Magnetic resonance imaging tools have now become widely available and allow viewing beyond the morphology of physiologic and pathologic tissue Using innovative sequence design and modern MR contrast media most methods can be easily integra..

What computers can\\\'t capture

Healthcare policy makers face the challenging task of balancing managements requirements for quantified information with the often unmeasurable realities of clinical decisionmaking Decisionmaking and healthcare policies need to be responsive to biome..

Driving up quality and reducing risk

Quality assurance and continuous development of health information and IT services in healthcare is a key patient safety and business issue A part of this is the need to assure the professionalism of individual practitioners as well as the services t..

Role of a patient-centred website

There exists from the patients pointofview an information gap between general knowledge about treatment and prevention and capacities to change behaviours Often delivered information does not address specific difficulties of the patients..

The Hippocratic Oath mentions the teaching of knowledge and leaving jobs to professionals in the future the professional may be a robot Historically technological changes have come at a manageable pace today the potential danger is that a lot of new ..

Adoption in Asia Pacific

Challenges such as rising healthcare costs demand for better quality of healthcare increasing labour shortage and fragmented healthcare system are making it imperative for healthcare organisation to integrate IT solutions in their administrative and ..

Banking on Market Demand

Healthcare IT’s Big Challenge

Any time you start with data exchange you identify issues which need to be worked out Many of the key standards are not fully maturefor example just because a message is represented as HL7 version 3 doesnt mean that it will be possible to read it on ..

An innovative transformation

The UAE Health Authority HAAD is defining health data standards to ensure that providers and insurers are reporting data consistently HAAD is leveraging this empirical data to drive population based healthcare reforms and healthy lifestyle initiative..